neepheid

It's easier to assume I'm making light of something on here - I usually am, it's the only way to stop the voices in my head taking over... plus too many people take things waaaaay too seriously, someone's got to attempt to be the court jester around here. I wish you every success in your varied sonic endeavours!

I enjoy all my basses very much - otherwise I wouldn't have them. None of them are perfect though. I've said that if I ever reviewed basses on YouTube or whatnot, I'd make sure I didn't just gush over whatever it was I'm looking at, there's always room for improvement. So, let me critique my current crop and say one negative thing about each. G&L CLF L-1000 - zero shielding, shocking for an instrument which cost £1300 at the time, had to do it myself. G&L Tribute LB-100 - the vintage tint on the neck is yellow, looks like it's got jaundice in the wrong light. Soloking MJ1 Classic - Stoopid name! Cup style jack socket mount means I have to be picky with my right angled cables. Sire D5 - pickup output is a bit low, have to remember to compensate either at the compressor output or the preamp. Epiphone Les Paul (not so) Standard - opposite problem to above, those DiMarzio X2N-B pickups I put in there have bonkers output, needs taming at the compressor so it isn't clipping on the preamp when set to 1. Harley Benton HB-50 (prototype) - stock it came wired with crap pots and a useless switch which gave you either or both coils, made almost no difference to the sound. Since modded to series/single/parallel and decent pots. Yamaha BB1200 - there's a ding/bit of lacquer missing on the back of the neck which is in an annoying, occasionally noticeable place. Sometimes I think I'll have a go at repairing, sometimes I think I should just leave it be. Epiphone Jack Casady 20th Anniversary - I think it's bloody rotten that Epiphone don't at least supply the JC with a gig bag - it's hollow FFS! The fact that my 20th Anniversary came with one shows that they can do it when they can be arsed and it annoys me. Reverend Triad - the neck heel sticks out a bit from the body, looks a bit goofy, I think they could have streamlined that a bit. Epiphone Korina Explorer - the case is fecking huge - the only way to get it in my car is by taking up the front passenger seat and sticking it in the footwell then up against the seat. There you go - a negative aspect for every bass I own. What a whingebag! I don't get the being put off by relative positioning thing. When playing the basses I own where the first fret/tuners feel like they're in a different time zone to me (I'm chiefly looking at you - Les Paul, Explorer and any Thunderbird I've ever owned) it just makes me feel even more like the rock star I know I am

You use "just" too much - I'm 48 and what, you think you're better than me because you're sitting at home all zen like and enlightened, not lugging gear to venues, playing to three people and a dog? Ahh, I get it now! Only kidding - each to their own, but I would miss the playing with others aspect too much to do what you're doing - and my songwriting extends beyond "just" playing bass - I write lyrics and I offer ideas to the other guys, not that I can play their instruments, but I can ask "can you do X, can you play it like Y, how would Z sound?" - TL:DR I enjoy the instant back and forth collaboration in a room.

Says you. It's the bass, I'm telling you!

48 and still in an originals band here.

Do you wish this fact to be recorded? You thought you should be in, after all?

Ooft, nice! Well, you didn't explicitly say you were in, but seeing as you're declaring you're out, that implies that you thought you were in, so I will record accordingly.

Never mind, there's always next year!

What happened, what did you buy?

Thanks for the picture of the guts, saves me lifting the pickguard on mine! Can I just make a clarification? In my NBD thread, I said that some Neutrik right angle jacks gave me bother then went into further detail showing the change in design over the 20 years between the old one (which didn't fit properly) and the newer one (which fit absolutely fine). Whoops, forgot to check the muting Neutrik jack I have on my "posh" lead. Will check that and report back. Of course it's not a massive job to replace the cup with a plate, just annoying. I do like the look of the cup though, very clean and tidy looking.

According to lowendlobster, the Hipshot TWO point bridge replacement drops straight in to an Epiphone Newport which uses the same bridge and tailpiece arrangement as the Vintage Pro Tbird...

Blocks on a P bass, lovely. Blocks on any bass actually, come to think of it...

I'm sure you're not the only one to think this. I know I've thought it (and even taken that thought to extremes and said "B-sides only"). Trouble with this is, you might as well be an originals band then, playing stuff hardly anyone knows. And if your aim is to "educate" the masses on what "good" music is, then good luck with that - it's just arrogant nonsense to your average punter down the Dog and Duck, who simply wants a dance and a singalong to the hits.

Catchy name...

BTW, only kidding, T40s are great looking basses, would love to have a go of one some time - enjoy!

So I suppose the black hole you pulled that from is just going to collapse in on itself then, is it?

u ok hun?

Johnny Chip and the Pins

Yeah, well you would say that! Sorry, I said I was done extracting the michael...

Bloody hell, a FIVER? Like a for real fiver, not the joke fiver we always offer when someone asks for a valuation? That's a dangerous thing to drop in here, you meanie! Just as well I'm too far away.

No, it wasn't! I was as surprised as you, believe me. If you read the date the American way, it looks like you made it until March! OK, I'm done taking the mick now, honest.

I'd add Drag Race to that list - maybe it's the World Championships or something.

Are you an EB-0, 1, 2, 3 or 4? 6 is showing off.